091.102

ELEMENTARY GERMAN II (4.5) Wiggins / Nguyen / Mifflin / Domenghino Prereq: 091.101 or equivalent Limit 18 per section  Continuation of foundation course in German language.  Focus is on all four skills: speaking, listening, writing & reading. Culture of the German-language countries is also incorporated into the curriculum. Two short books are read.

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02

03

04

MTW 9, Th 1

MTW 10, Th 2

MTW 11, F 2:30

MTW 12, F 2:30

091.202 (H)

INTERMEDIATE GERMAN II (3.5) Delman Wheeler    Prereq: 091.201 or equivalent   Limit 16  section  Continuation of a review and expansion of all aspects of the German language.  Course focuses on all four skills with a special emphasis on reading literary texts, writing and editing, and speaking conversationally as well as more formally in presentations. A literary novel is read.  Taught in German.

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02

MTW 12

MTW 1

091.302 (H)

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ADVANCED GERMAN CONVERSATION & COMPOSITION II: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ISSUES (3) McChesney / Kellerer Limit 15 per section    Prereq: 091.301 or equivalent. This is a writing intensive course aimed at the refinement of grammatical use and modes of expression.  The topic of the semester is German-American relations, debates over the German past, and other contemporary issues.  A variety of texts, including film & literature, is included. Taught in German

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02

MTW 11

MTW 1

091.304 (H)

BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL GERMAN (3) Staff Limit 15   Prereq: 091.301 or equivalent Course is designed to familiarize students with the vocabulary and standards for doing business in Germany.  The focus of the second semester is on company structure, management and marketing. Taught in German Course canceled 12/16/04

Sec. 01

MTW 10

091.352 (H)

INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE & CULTURE: 1918-1945 (3) Wilczek Limit 15  Prereq: 091.301-302  This course is designed to introduce students to the analysis of literary and cultural topics. A variety of 20th century texts and visual media will form the basis for discussion of literature and cultural phenomena specific to the time period. Attention is given to improving student writing. Readings, discussion and written assignments in German

Sec. 01

T 1-2:30

W 3-4:30

090.349 (H)

SPEAKING PHILOSOPHICALLY: ENLIGHTENMENT (3) Campe  In the Enlightenment philosophers take on a role in public affairs. What have been their basic claims?  What were their fundamental ways of making those claims?  Readings of selections from Leibniz to Kant.  English with reading section in German.

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M 1-3

Plus 1 hour T 11

090.373 (H)

THOMAS MANN “DOKTOR FAUSTUS” (3)  Nägele/Zheng  Prereq: 091.201-202 or equilvalent .  Thomas Mann’s monumental novel “Doktor Faustus” is one of the first important literary responses to the horrors of Nazi-Germany.  It does so in a complex way:  weaving together the mythic figure of Faust embodied in the figure of modern composer and musician, with traits of the philosopher Nietzsche, and all this before the background of German cultural and political history from Luther to Third Reich. Readings in German, lectures and discussion in German and English.

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                 Th 1-3

Plus 1 hour T 4

090.375 (H)

GEORG BǕCHNER (3) Twellmann  Prereq:  091.201-202 or equilavent Will investigate the works of one of the most unsettling German writers between romanticism and modernism in its political context and introduce to the analysis of narrative and dramatic texts. Readings and discussion in German.

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                W 1-3

090.402 (H)

SMALL PROSE OF THE CLASSICAL MODERN 1900-1933 (3) Groddeck  Prereq: 091.201-202 or equivalent  We will read shorter narrative texts and essays from 1900-1933 which then flourished in the feuilleton sections of the print press (Kafka, Benn, Musil, Walser, and others). Reading focuses on their specific contribution to modern writing and the cultural and political contexts.   Readings and discussions in German

Sec. 01

M 5-7pm

150.418 (H)

HERMENEUTICS AND CRITICAL THEORY (3) Förster   See Philosophy for the complete course description  Cross-Listed with Philosophy

Sec. 01

ThF 9 -10:30

300.200 (H)

CITIES: FOR EXAMPLE, BALTIMORE (3) Hertz    Limit 20 per section   An introduction to how cities look and how they work, by way of contemporary Baltimore; an introduction to Baltimore, its pleasures and problems, by way of what's been said about other cities, in American and elsewhere, contemporary and long gone.  Readings in works by urban observers, photographers, historians, anthropologists, architects, planners and journalists, field trips to various Baltimore neighborhoods. Cross-listed with English, Romance Languages, German, and History of Art

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02

03

M 11
W 3-5

W 3-5

W 3-5

300.330 (H)

THE GHOST & THE MACHINE (3) de Vries Limit 20  See Humanities for the complete course description  Cross-listed with Humanities Philosophy, Political Science,  Romance Languages, Anthropology

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-1

090.502

INDEPENDENT STUDY

090.510

GERMAN HONORS PROGRAM      Nägele

091.602

READING & TRANSLATING GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES SPECIAL INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN Clark   Limit 20  This course is designed for graduate students in other department who wish to gain a reading knowledge of the German language.  This semester assumes a basic knowledge of German grammar and vocabulary and concentrates on reading practice.  For certification or credit.

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MW 9

091.608

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF GERMAN FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Mifflin Course designed for graduate teaching assistants as an introduction to major topics in foreign language teaching and learning. Through discussion, presentation, classroom observation and critical reading of pertinent literature, you will develop reflective teaching practices and explore practical applications of principles of learning and teaching to the foreign language classroom.

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M 1-3 T 1-3

090.617

ROBERT WALSER’S MIKROGRAMME  Groddeck   The course concentrates on Walser's "Microgramme," a five-hundred-page convolute, which Walser left behind in microscopic handwriting.  Readings will focus on the challenges involved in editing this unique ensemble and on broader issues relating to writing and textuality. Readings and discussion in German.

Sec. 01

T 3-5

090.630

W. G. SEBALD  Theisen   Seminar will offer an introduction to Sebald's prose from Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, to Austerlitz. Discussion in English, texts in German or in English translation. Course canceled 11/18/04.

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F 11-1

090.706

ARCHIVES OF THE PRESENT: GRAMMATOLOGY Twellmann  (Re-)reading of Ferdinand de Saussure's "Cours de linguistique générale" and its reception in Jacques Derrida's "De la grammatologie". Further readings include Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan  and Paul de Man.   Readings and discussion in German

Sec. 01

M 3-5

090.716

CONTINGENCIES: SEMANTICS OF PROBABILITY & NARRATIVE FORMS IN THE 18TH CENTURY  Campe  Focuses on Wieland's Agathon and Kleist's novellas for exploring variants of a poetics of contingency.  Discussion on event, chance and probability from philosophy, science and poetics of the time will be included.   Readings and discussion in German

Sec. 01

W 5-7pm

090.764

RǛCKSICHT AUF DARSTELLBARKEIT  Nägele “Rücksicht auf Darstellbarkeit” – consideration for (re-)presentability – is a phrase coined by Freud denoting one of the four labors of the dream.  But this “consideration” is obviously one that is at the constitutive basis of any (re-) presentation.  We will pursue the questions through close readings of texts beginning with Aristotle and Plato through Lessing, Klopstock, Hšlderlin, Kleist to Freud and Benjamin (and others).

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Th 5-7pm

100.652

EUROPEAN SOCIALIST THOUGHT Jelavich   See History for complete course description   Cross-listed with History

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W 2-4

150.630

SEMINAR IN METAPHYSICS: KANT’S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE Förster   Limit 15   Prereq: Knowledge of Kant=s Critique of Pure Reason
See Philosophy for complete course description    Cross listed with Philosophy

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Th 2-4

300.600

INSTANCES: ON LIVING HERE & NOW DeVries   Limit 20 The seminar is devoted to different historical examples and contemporary formalizations of the privileged, fulfilled, yet fleeting moment (the instant, presence, kairos, Augenblick, durée, Jetztzeit). Readings will include Bergson, Bachelard, Heidegger, Badiou, and Hadot.
Cross-listed with Philosophy, German, Romance Languages, Anthropology, and Political Science

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T 10:30-1

300.604

LITERATURE OF THE CITY Hertz   Limit 20     Readings in the works of novelists and poets, historians, sociologists, journalists, and urban theorists on life in Western cities (e.g., London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles) from the 18th century to the present.
Cross-listed with English, German, Romance Languages and History of Art

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F 10-12

090.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 – Staff            Sec. 04 – Nägele
Sec. 02 – Campe         Sec. 05 – Tobias
Sec. 03 – Thiesen

090.812

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Nägele

090.814

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Campe

090.816

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Staff

090.818

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Theisen Course canceled 11/18/04.

090.820

DIRECTED DISSERTATION RESEARCH Tobias